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I've just discovered that barenaked rice is now available! Barenaked noodles are a lot better than EatWater Slim Noodles (not as wet and slithery; much more like normal noodles; and only 0.1 g carb per 100g), so I'm hopeful that their rice will be better than EatWater Slim Rice, which is...

Coming at this a bit late but I have managed to achieve normal BG readings through low carbing. I did it in three stages over the course of a year: at each stage I had a HbA1c and my dose of Gliclazide was reduced until I could come off it entirely; all done in consultation with GP and DSN. To...

Hello Meoman. Blood sugar isn't blood sugar, it's blood glucose, to be more precise. I'd suggest ignoring what the nutritional analysis on food packaging says about sugar: just look at the total carb figure (assuming you're in the UK; in the US you would look at the net carb figure). The body...

Hello Engineer. Portable low carb breakfast? How about: hard-boiled eggs; chunks of cheese; cooked low-carb sausage (Black Farmer Premium Pork are only 1% carb; German Frankfurter types are also low carb because they're not allowed to adulterate them rusk and other rubbish); slices of Sukrin...

I got my Sukrin bread mix from Amazon. Sent from the Diabetes Forum App

Hello Glynn. It's fine if you're on insulin and can adjust your dose accordingly. For those of us managing T2 by diet only, fruit is a real problem. The best way I have found to manage it is to eat some fruit, wait half an hour for the spike to start, then exercise for half an hour or so to...

Burgen bread is 27.3% carb, which is a lot better than normal bread; but Sukrin bread is 2.5% carb. No contest. Sent from the Diabetes Forum App

Brown rice is not good for BG, it's just less bad than white rice, because the carb is absorbed a bit more slowly. I use "rice" made from Konjac (Eat Water Slim Rice from Ocado and H&B). It's not rice at all, and it has a slippery texture with no flavour, but it does the job of balancing a...

Wholemeal is no better than white bread, because it's mostly white flour with some brown stuff added. Whole grain is better, pumpernickel is even better still, but I still can't eat even that without spiking. I've now discovered Sukrin bread mix, which doesn't use wheat flour; only about 1g carb...

Tried the Sukrin bread mix: excellent! Very easy to make (add water, stir, put in oven); a nice little loaf emerges. No flour, so very low carb. This is the first bread I've had for many months; normally bread (even whole grain) will give me a horrendous spike, but two slices of this had...

For a while I was getting lot of spam text messages on my mobile. I was told never to reply, but to forward them to 7726 (which is the number equivalent of dialling "spam" on your keyboard); you then get an acknowledgement text from your provider (O2 in my case). I did this religiously over a...

Hello Hotlips. The zero drinks and the exercise are all good, but the key is in what you eat. I lost a lot of weight by adjusting my diet without taking any exercise. At the time I didn't know I was diabetic, so I went for no sweet stuff, low fat and smaller portions, which worked very well...

I drink quite a lot of Coke Zero (Coke Zero is for men; Diet Coke is for the girls; watch the ads :-)) and I've never had any spikes from it. I believe you can use urine testing strips to check drinks; they're much cheaper than blood testing strips, which would probably not work, anyway. Sent...

Just found it on Amazon. Ordered. Will provide feedback when I've tried it...... Sent from the Diabetes Forum App

Bread with only 2.5% carbs! Sukrin low carb bread mix looks intriguing. Where do you buy it, miluxa? Sent from the Diabetes Forum App

Hello big daddy. If you want to low carb, you'll need to think about gradually reducing to zero the following items from your menu: cereal, pasta, chips, croquettes, breadcrumbs, finger rolls, the potato in Ocean Pie and BBQ sauce (probably loaded with sugar). Have a look in the low carb forum...

I was on Gliclazide for about a year, until my progressively lower carb intake brought my glucose levels down to normal. While I was on it, I found it very effective and easy to manage, as long I monitored BG regularly and adjusted levels of carb intake and exercise appropriately. I wasn't...

How about starting with "Do you take supplements?"? It would be interesting to get an idea of how many people do and don't take them. Personally, I don't: I am hoping that my LCHF diet gives me enough of everything; and I don't believe in all the weird stuff promoted in dodgy web sites...

Great news! Ocado has started stocking "Eat Water" konjac noodles, pasta and rice. No more special trips to Holland & Barrett, only to find they're out of stock. Ordered six last week on a 3 for the price of 2 offer. Sent from the Diabetes Forum App

I'm sure low carb is the way to go, if we want avoid meds (assuming we're lucky enough to be sufficiently early in the degenerative process). It really is no problem until lunch at work: sandwiches are really convenient, but even so-called wholemeal bread sends the BG skywards; I try and get...